Re: devfs and udev

Greg KH
2003-10-07T23:27:26Z

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:49:41AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> writes:
>
> >> Can you point me to any documentation at all?
> >
> > Really, I don't know why Greg is bothering to answer your questions.
> >
> > This stuff is all readily accessible via (a) getting off your nethers
> > and doing a Google search for "linux udev" and (b) reading what you
> > find. It's trivial to find, and it's utterly obvious how it works.
>
> I followed the link provided in the Kconfig, and downloaded the files
> that seemed reasonable. The only documentation I found there warned
> me against using it.

Then don't use it, no one is forcing you to.

But if you do, wow, look at the second Google link for "linux udev":
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.3/0495.html

Hey look, documentation, a presentation, and wow, a statement saying
that the code sucks, and is merely a proof of concept, and that it will
get better over time. That's a zillion lines more of text than most
open source projects ever generate.

{sigh}

greg k-h